Internecine

(1) Of, or relating to, conflict within a nation, an organization, or a group.
(2) Mutually destructive; involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter.
(3) Deadly; destructive; marked by slaughter.

Inculcate

To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill: inculcating sound principles.

Prestidigitation

(1) Performance of or skill in performing magic or conjuring tricks with the hands; sleight of hand.
(2) A show of skill or deceitful cleverness.

Sibyl

(1) any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy)
(2a) a female prophet
(2b) fortune teller

Pleonasm

The use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense. Example: the man he said.

Paroxysm

(1) A sudden outburst of emotion or action: a paroxysm of laughter.
(2a) A sudden attack, recurrence, or intensification of a disease.
(2b) A spasm or fit; a convulsion.

Bonhomie

A pleasant and affable disposition; geniality.

Gorp

A mixture of high-energy foods, such as nuts and dried fruit, eaten as a snack. Synonym: trail mix

Reticule

A drawstring purse or handbag. Also reticle.

Glissando

A rapid slide through a series of consecutive tones in a scalelike passage.

Cantilever

(1) A projecting structure, such as a beam, that is supported at one end and carries a load at the other end or along its length.
(2) A member, such as a beam, that projects beyond a fulcrum and is supported by a balancing member or a downward force behind the fulcrum.

Harridan

A woman regarded as scolding and vicious.

Sanguinary

(1) Accompanied by bloodshed.
(2) Eager for bloodshed; bloodthirsty.
(3) Consisting of blood.

Sundry

adj
consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds (even to the point of incongruity)

n
article too small or numerous to be specified; miscellaneous item

Miasma

(1) A noxious atmosphere or influence: "The family affection, the family expectations, seemed to permeate the atmosphere... like a coiling miasma."

(2a) A poisonous atmosphere formerly thought to rise from swamps and putrid matter and cause disease.
(2b) A thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation: wreathed in a miasma of cigarette smoke.

Mawkish

(1) Excessively and objectionably sentimental.
(2) Sickening or insipid in taste.

Repose

n.
(1) The act of resting or the state of being at rest.
(2) Freedom from worry; peace of mind.
(3) Calmness; tranquillity.

v.
(1) To place (trust, for example): reposed all his hopes in the new cure.
(2) To lay (oneself) down.
(3) To rest or relax (oneself).

August

(1) Inspiring awe or admiration; majestic: the august presence of the monarch.
(2) Venerable for reasons of age or high rank.

Pulchritudinous

Characterized by or having great physical beauty and appeal.

Incipient

Beginning to exist or appear: detecting incipient tumors; an incipient personnel problem.

Frisson

A moment of intense excitement; a shudder: The story's ending arouses a frisson of terror.

Higgledy-Piggledy

(1) In utter disorder or confusion: “There is something delightfully and liberatingly ludicrous about parading higgledy-piggledy in a line of walkers of all shapes and sizes”
(2) Topsy-turvy; jumbled.

Zeitgeist

The taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period or generation.

Panoply

(1) A splendid or striking array: a panoply of colorful flags.
(2) Ceremonial attire with all accessories: a portrait of the general in full panoply.
(3) Something that covers and protects: a porcupine's panoply of quills.
(4) The complete arms and armor of a warrior.

Draconian

Exceedingly harsh; very severe: a draconian legal code; draconian budget cuts.

[From the name Draco, an Athenian politician who codified the laws of Athens (c. 621). Lauded for its impartiality, his code was unpopular for its severity.]

Jamais vu

The experience of being unfamiliar with a person or situation that is actually very familiar. Antonym: deja vu

Fait accompli

An accomplished, presumably irreversible deed or fact.

Grok

To understand profoundly through intuition or empathy.

Logy

Characterized by lethargy; sluggish.

Highfalutin

Pompous or pretentious: “highfalutin reasons for denying direct federal assistance to the unemployed”

Parabulia

Abnormality of volition or will, as when one impulse is checked and replaced by another.

Simulacrum

(1) An image or representation.
(2) An unreal or vague semblance.

Spoonerism

The transposition of usually initial sounds in a pair of words.

Some examples:
-- The Lord is a shoving leopard ["loving shepherd"].
-- It is kisstomary to cuss ["customary to kiss"] the bride.
-- Is the bean dizzy ["dean busy"]?
-- Let me sew you to your sheet ["show you to your seat"].

Osculate

(1) To kiss.
(2) Mathematics. To have three or more points coincident with.
(3) To come together; contact.

Complicit

Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime; having complicity: newspapers complicit with the propaganda arm of a dictatorship.

Miscegenation

(1) The interbreeding of different races or of persons of different racial backgrounds.
(2) Cohabitation, sexual relations, or marriage involving persons of different races.
(3) A mixture or hybridization: “There was musical miscegenation at a time when segregation was the common rule”

Chiaroscuro

(1) The technique of using light and shade in pictorial representation.
(2) The arrangement of light and dark elements in a pictorial work of art.
(3a) A woodcut technique in which several blocks are used to print different shades of a color.
(3b) A woodcut print made by this technique.

ad hominem

Appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason: Debaters should avoid ad hominem arguments that question their opponents' motives.

Stultifying

(1) To render useless or ineffectual; cripple.
(2) To cause to appear stupid, inconsistent, or ridiculous.
(3) Law. To allege or prove insane and so not legally responsible.

Atavism

(1) The reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence, usually caused by the chance recombination of genes.
(2) An individual or a part that exhibits atavism. Also called throwback.
(3) The return of a trait or recurrence of previous behavior after a period of absence.

Seriatim

One after another; in a series.

Appurtenance

(1) Something added to another, more important thing; an appendage. See Synonyms at appendage.
(2) Equipment, such as clothing, tools, or instruments, used for a specific purpose or task; gear.
(3) Law. A right, privilege, or property that is considered incident to the principal property for purposes such as passage of title, conveyance, or inheritance.

Molder

To crumble to dust; disintegrate.

Bilious

(1) Of, relating to, or containing bile; biliary.
(2a) Characterized by an excess secretion of bile.
(2b) Relating to, characterized by, or experiencing gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gallbladder.
(2c) Appearing as if affected by such a disorder; sickly.
(3) Resembling bile, especially in color: a bilious green.
(4) Having a peevish disposition; ill-humored.